The most significant changes we’ve made to Feature Upvote
- March 2024: Added Discord integration.
- February 2024: You can pin a comment to the top of a suggestion’s list of comments. Great for an “official company response” comment.
- January 2024: You can disable voting for suggestions marked as “Done”. Furthermore, any status, built-in or custom, can be set to disable voting for suggestions with that status.
- November 2023: Comments now have a “like” button. Instead of writing “I want this too” comments, your board contributors can upvote existing comments.
- November 2023: Boards are now more interactive and have less full-page reloads. Your board feels different to use, while not looking different.
- November 2023: The search page updates results as you type
- November 2023: Editing comments now occurs in-page
- November 2023: Improved creating, editing, and deleting of private notes.
- September 2023: You can now move suggestions between boards in bulk. This makes it much easier to separate a board into two, or to merge two boards together into one.
- September 2023: You can now edit a board’s “custom explanation text” with a rich text editor. No more manual HTML!
- September 2023: Contributors can now add tags to their own suggestions. This is an opt-in setting; you can enable it in your board’s settings -> permissions.
- August 2023: Your account now has an activity log. It won’t help you work out what feature to build next, but it will make your account more secure.
- August 2023: Set a default ordering for your board: New suggestions first, Top (most voted) first, or trending first.
- June 2023: When moderating, you can now export just the suggestions matching your current filter. For example, you can download all suggestions with status “Under consideration” with tag “version 2”.
- May 2023: We’ve improved the design and usability of our voting buttons.
- May 2023: We’ve made our infrastructure for handling custom domain names more reliable and stable.
- April 2023: Contributors now need to accept our Acceptable Use Policy before their suggestions or comments can be posted.
- March 2023: Dashboard home page now has more accurate counts for # of suggestions and # of comments. We now exclude deleted suggestions, merged suggestions, and spam suggestions from the total counts.
- March 2023: Improved format of CSV and Excel exports.
- March 2023: Auto-generated comments created when you merge two suggestions are now excluded from the daily and weekly activity summary emails.
- March 2023: Our bulk import system is now self-serve. You can import from a CSV file without having to ask Feature Upvote support to do it for you.
- March 2023: Suggestions now have the same excellent automated spam detection that comments have had for a long time.
- February 2023: Improved the formatting of Slack notifications sent by Feature Upvote.
- February 2023: Exports no longer get sent to email, but are downloadable directly from within your Feature Upvote dashboard.
- January 2023: You can now enable voting directly from the front page.
- December 2022: You can now hide the names of contributors from suggestions and comments.
- December 2022: We’ve made our search feature work much better for boards in languages such as German, Swedish, and Norwegian, that use compound words.
- November 2022: You can now sort suggestions by “Trending”, in addition to the existing options of “Top” and “New”.
- November 2022: Your board’s suggestion list now includes a snippet of text from each suggestion’s description. This gives your users more context when skimming the list of suggestions.
- November 2022: From your board’s, Data Privacy settings, you can disable Akismet comment spam detection. This is useful if you don’t want data passing to a US-based service.
- October 2022: When moderating, you can now filter suggestions by tags.
- September 2022: When viewing a suggestion’s upvotes, you can now view the upvotes ordered by date, name, email, ip address, or user agent. This makes it much easier to find duplicates.
- September 2022: Exporting to CSV is now simpler. All three CSV files are now generated with one click, and sent to you via email.
- July 2022: We’ve added an automatic vote cleaner. The vote cleaner removes suspected duplicate votes from the same person, based on IP address. Available on request.
- May 2022: When moderating, you can now choose the sort order of the suggestions or comments to be “newest first” or “oldest first”.
- April 2022: Added Zendesk integration.
- March 2022: You can add tags to multiple suggestions at once from the moderation screen.
- February 2022: Any custom status can be marked as a “Done” status. Suggestions with these statuses are not shown when the filter “All except done” is used.
- January 2022: Excel export is now much faster.
- November 2021: Contributors can now add images to comments.
- November 2021: You can add an “Impressum” to your board and company portal.
- October 2021: Your board now has an email settings screen, with an email log, showing what emails were recently sent for your board.
- August 2021: Use an “access list” to restrict access to your board to only certain people.
- July 2021: You can now hide the vote counts.
- June 2021: Added Microsoft Teams integration.
- June 2021: Our search results page now lets you paginate through all the results.
- May 2021: Our Slack integration now has some options that let you fine-tune what gets sent to Slack.
- April 2021: You can now add custom CSS to your company portal.
- April 2021: You can export your suggestions as an Excel file.
- March 2021: Added Japanese translation.
- February 2021: More colours for custom statuses. We’ve added purple, pink, brown, and red.
- February 2021: Made it possible for customers to navigate between your feedback boards and your company feedback portal.
- January 2021: You can choose what level of throttling you want, or turn throttling off altogether.
- January 2021: Our bulk importer now imports statuses, creates custom statuses, and imports private notes.
- January 2021: Private notes can now be much longer.
- December 2020: Add private notes to suggestions.
- December 2020: Optionally disable email notifications to contributors.
- December 2020: Customise the title text on the “Add suggestion” page.
- December 2020: Choose an IP address to block directly from the “view contributor” page.
- December 2020: View a list of all suggestions and comments made by a specific contributor.
- November 2020: Add a custom domain to your board without having to contact Feature Upvote support first.
- November 2020: The dashboard received substantial design improvements. It’s faster and easier to use, without sacrificing any features.
- November 2020: Use the “vote cleaner” to bulk delete all or some votes for a specific suggestion.
- October 2020: When viewing a suggestion’s list of upvotes, you now page through all votes, instead of only the most recent 500 votes.
- October 2020: Block specific IP addresses from being able to contribute to your feedback board.
- October 2020: Comments can now be up to 1,000 characters long, instead of only 500 characters. This matches the length of suggestion descriptions.
- September 2020: Added Finnish translation.
- September 2020: Choose the status given to newly approved suggestions.
- September 2020: Disable the built-in statuses such as ‘Planned’ and ‘Under consideration’.
- August 2020: Use query string parameters to pass in a contributor’s name and email address. These will be used when adding a suggestion, adding a comment, or voting.
- August 2020: Change the order in which statuses are listed.
- July 2020: Add your own custom statuses for suggestions.
- June 2020: Improved the detection of accidental double submissions.
- June 2020: Company portals can now be embedded in an iframe.
- June 2020: Tweaked detection of votes by bots or scripts.
- May 2020: Set a default filter to control what suggestions are seen by first-time visitors.
- April 2020: Use your Google Analytics account to track usage of your feedback board.
- April 2020: Transfer ownership of your account to another user.
- March 2020: Amount of custom text on your board increased to 2,000 characters.
- March 2020: Your customers can now sign in to your private board using a special shared URL.
- January 2020: Added Polish translation.
- December 2019: Optionally block Google from indexing your feedback board.
- November 2019: The privacy policy consent checkbox now defaults to selected if the user has already agreed when previously posting a suggestion or comment.
- November 2019: Custom domain names now support SSO (single sign-on).
- November 2019: Set suggestions and comments to be auto-approved.
- October 2019: Move a suggestion to a different feedback board.
- September 2019: Added Norwegian translation.
- September 2019: Added pagination to suggestion list.
- September 2019: Added optional “notify me of changes” popup when people vote.
- August 2019: Added a filter by tag. This appears when your feedback board has at least one tag.
- June 2019: When you change the colour of the header bar, the moderator icons automatically adopt an appropriate colour scheme.
- May 2019: Added Hebrew translation.
- April 2019: Modernised Atlassian Jira integration to use API tokens instead of passwords.
- April 2019: Added support for right-to-left languages, such as Hebrew.
- April 2019: Added Turkish translation.
- March 2019: Made suggestion and comment forms GDPR-compliant.
- February 2019: Added Zapier integration.
- February 2019: Added Icelandic translation.
- February 2019: Links are auto-created in suggestion descriptions and comment text.
- Dec 4, 2018: Improved comment spam detection.
- Nov 22, 2018: Check for similar suggestions has been significantly improved.
- Nov 16, 2018: Search for suggestions has been significantly improved.
- Oct 8, 2018: Added Danish translation.
- Sep 29, 2018: Board export now includes suggestions, comments and upvotes.
- Sep 19, 2018: When voting on behalf of a customer, you can enable notifications for the customer.
- Sep 12, 2018: Added Russian translation.
- Sep 9, 2018: Added Slack integration.
- Aug 24, 2018: Customers who comment on suggestions are sent email notifications when suggestions are updated.
- Aug 16, 2018: Your customers are emailed when their suggestions are updated.
- Aug 14, 2018: When viewing a suggestion as a moderator, displayed email address are now clickable mailto links.
- Aug 8, 2018: Board export now includes the name and email address of person who made the suggestion.
- Aug 7, 2018: Company portals can now have custom domain names.
- Jul 28, 2018: Added an optional “company portal”, which publicly lists all your feedback boards.
- Jul 27, 2018: Added French translation.
- Jul 25, 2018: Updated the design of Feature Upvote to be more consistent and modern.
- Jun 28, 2018: You can now change the default header bar title and suggestion list title.
- Jun 4, 2018: Added Single sign-on (SSO) integration using the SAML 2.0 standard.
- May 25, 2018: Added Czech translation.
- May 11, 2018: Added permissions to control who can vote, add suggestions, and add comments.
- May 9, 2018: Moderators can add votes on behalf of customers.
- May 8, 2018: Moderators can remove individual votes from a suggestion.
- May 1, 2018: Multiple suggestions can now be pinned.
- May 1, 2018: Moderators can now change the name and email they use when posting a suggestion.
- May 1, 2018: Moderators can now add/remove “admin” tag on any comment.
- April 10, 2018: Added Dutch translation for feedback boards.
- March 25, 2018: Dashboard lets you delete all suggestions, comments only, upvotes only, or entire board.
- March 22, 2018: You can disable voting on suggestions.
- March 19, 2018: Moderators can now see email addresses when viewing suggestions.
- March 8, 2018: Added “All except done” to suggestions filter.
- February 28, 2018: In “View suggestions”, all four public statuses can now be selected from the status dropdown.
- February 23, 2018: CSV export now includes suggestion status and custom tags.
- February 21, 2018: You can now add your own custom CSS stylesheet.
- January 19, 2018: Added paging to bulk moderation of comments and suggestions.
- January 18, 2018: Moderators can view metadata for each upvote.
- January 15, 2018: You can add custom tags to suggestions.
- November 8, 2017: Added Jira integration. Create a Jira issue from a suggestion.
- October 18, 2017: Added German translation for feedback boards.
- October 9, 2017: You can disable commenting on suggestions.
- October 9, 2017: Added uploading of images and screenshots.
- September 19, 2017: Added Portuguese (Brazil) translation for feedback boards.
- August 31, 2017: You can now split a suggestion into two.
- August 24, 2017: You can now merge two suggestions into one.
- August 17, 2017: Added a user guide.
- August 11, 2017: You can filter suggestions by All, Planned, and Done.
- August 10, 2017: Added Spanish (Spain) translation for feedback boards.
- August 4, 2017: You can add password protection to a feedback board.
- August 3, 2017: Improved the usability of the board settings page.
- July 28, 2017: New feedback boards have two sample suggestions made for you.
- July 27, 2017: You can now undo bulk comment moderation.
- July 26, 2017: You can now undo bulk suggestion moderation.
- July 21, 2017: Activated system for handling paid subscriptions.
- July 11, 2017: Improved search UI.
- July 7, 2017: You can add custom text to your board page.
- July 6, 2017: You can pin a suggestion to the top of the list.
- July 4, 2017: You are now prompted “are you sure?” if you try to navigate away from half-completed suggestion.
- June 29, 2017: Custom page footer text max length is now 400, was 200 characters.
- June 26, 2017: Improved prevention of double-posting of suggestion.
- June 22, 2017: Added bulk moderation of comments.
- June 20, 2017: Added bulk moderation of suggestions.
- June 19, 2017: You can now receive a weekly email summary instead of a daily email summary.
- June 13, 2017: All feedback boards now use subdomain-style URLs.
- June 9, 2017: Added “notification” icon to board nav bar when signed in.
- May 19, 2017: You can export all board suggestions from the dashboard.
- May 17, 2017: Feature Upvote now available to the public.
- March 17, 2017: Started private beta.
- February 17, 2017: Started turning proof-of-concept into production-quality code.
- November 21, 2016: First line of code written.